Contents. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PAGE 



THE FARMHOUSE. Traditions : Hunting Pictures : The 

 Farmer's Year : Sport : The Auction Festival : A 

 Summer's Day : Beauty of Wheat 112 



CHAPTER VIII. 



BIRDS OF THE FARMHOUSE. Speech of a Starling : 

 Population of a Gable : The King of the Hedge : The 

 Thrush's Anvil 132 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE ORCHARD. Emigrant Martins : The Missel-Thrush : 

 Caravan Route of Birds and Animals : A Fox in 

 Ambush: A Snake in a Clock : . , i._.. . . . 150 



CHAPTER X. 



THE WOODPILE. Lizards: Sheds and Rickyard : The 



Witches' Briar : Insects : Plants, Flowers, and Fruit . 169 



CHAPTER XI. 



THE HOME-FIELD. Hazel Corner: The Divining-Rod : 

 Rabbits' Holes : The Corncrake : Ventriloquism of 

 Birds : Hedge-Fruit 187 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE ASH COPSE. The Nightingale : Cloud of Starlings : 

 Hedgehogs. HEROX'S MEAD : Moor-hens. Among 

 the Reeds 203 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE WARREX. Rabbit Burrows : Ferrets : The Quarry. 

 THE FOREST. Squirrels : Deer : Dying Rabbit : 

 A Hawk 218 



